'''The Crossfire wiki has been migrated to Github. All of the content from this wiki has been moved to the [https://github.com/mrennie/crossfire/wiki wiki on Github].'''

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The remaining pages and links below will not be migrated to Github and have been left here for legacy reasons.

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Crossfire is a Firebug extension which implements a JSON protocol to allow remote clients (like an IDE or code editor) to connect to Firebug.

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== Who is using Crossfire ? ==

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One of the main goals of Crossfire is to provide a simple and straight-forward method for tools in other processes to obtain the same kind of information that Firebug has about the Web pages the user is debugging.

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* The Firebug Working Group is currently planning to use Crossfire in future versions of Firebug as a solution for the out-of-process plugin architecture of Firefox 4.

[[Getting started with Crossfire]] contains some helpful information for getting started. This is mostly intended for developers interested in building tools that connect to Crossfire, and assumes some familiarity with Firebug and Firefox extensions.

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There are pre-built versions of Crossfire available: [http://getfirebug.com/releases/crossfire/ http://getfirebug.com/releases/crossfire/]

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[[Connecting Firebug in Firefox to another Firebug in Firefox]] is a tutorial that explains how to connect the Crossfire client and Crossfire server by running to separate Firefox processes.

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== Known Issues ==

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Issues in Crossfire are tracked with Firebug's issue tracker using the 'crossfire' label.